Blog #4

The Misfourtunes of Race

There are many strange and messed up people out there that belive what there doing is the right thing when even in heinz sight it's the worst possible thing ever. A Perfect example of this would be Hitler and the Nazi's. Although he did have a certain level of hatred towards the jew's he did firmly belive what he was doing was the right thing for Germany and the world. The rest of the Nazi regime thought it was right because they were forced to belive it was, the thought of killing and capturing the jew's were forced into there heads so deep it was really the only thing they knew how to do.

Eli Wiesel's speech relates to "The Lottery" quite well actually. In his speech he describes what it was like to be in a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. Like I had mentioned in my previous paragraph all they were trained for was to capture and kill the "enemy". So they really had no idea what they were doing was utterly horrible. This is the same for the villagers in "The Lottery". The tradition of the lottery and the box had been happening for as long as anyone could remember, so long noone was alive from when it had first originated. Even though they were picking someone from their own community to stone to death they felt as if they weren't doing anything wrong simply because it had been going on for age's.